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CALL FOR PAPERS AND
PARTICIPATION
EXTENDED SUBMISSION
DEADLINE: July 31, 2006
First Workshop on Location
Based Services for Health Care
part of the Pervasive
Healthcare Conference 2006
28th November, 2006
IMPORTANT DATES
Papers due (new
date): July 31, 2006
Notification of
Acceptance: August 25, 2006
Camera-ready Manuscripts
due: September 14, 2006
Workshop
Date:
November 28, 2006
AIMS AND OBJECTIVES
Location is an important
contextual dimension for ubiquitous computing, and it is central to the
development of many ubiquitous systems.
The problem of location in
opened places is well addressed by Global Positioning System (GPS)
technologies, while inference of places from locations is an opened issue with
various interesting approaches being developed. Indoor location is also a
demanding problem and various approaches are being studied nowadays.
Development of solutions for
these issues, showing good precision, accuracy, and adequacy is of central
interest for Location Based Services (LBS). The area of Health Care is a main
target for progress in this area. This workshop will bring an exciting
environment for discussion and presentation of late breaking developments on
all these subjects with emphasis on Health Care applications. It will comprise
the presentations and discussion of scientific papers, a keynote speech, and a
panel session.
Original contributions are
solicited in all areas related to LBS and Healthcare, including but not limited
to:
* Technologies and infrastructures for location.
* Inference of place from position.
* Design, implementation and evaluation of location based
services.
* Location based services for Health Care scenarios
* Privacy, security and trust issues.
SUBMISSION DETAILS
Ten to fifteen participants
will be invited based on a position paper submitted prior to the workshop. Each
position paper should be two to five pages in length and consist of the
author's current research on location systems and/or location based services
for healthcare.
Paper submissions should
attach a short text on author's current research activities, expectations
towards the workshop, and a short bio.
Position papers should
follow IEEE's conference style two-column format including figures and references.
CONFERENCE MANAGEMENT TOOL: http://cocus.create-net.it:8080/confsys
Important Dates
Papers
due:
July 21, 2006
Notification of
Acceptance: August 25, 2006
Camera-ready Manuscripts
due: September 14, 2006
Workshop
Date:
November 28, 2006
CONFERENCE DETAILS
The workshop is part of the
Pervasive Healthcare Conference 2006, the website for which is here: http://www.pervasivehealth.org/
WORKSHOP ORGANISERS
Carlos Bento (
[bento [at] dei.uc.pt]
Francisco C. Pereira
(University of Coimbra, Portugal)
[camara [at]
dei.uc.pt]
Jorge Miranda Dias
(Instituto de Sistemas e Robótica, ISR, Portugal)
[jorge [at] isr.uc.pt]
WORKSHOP PROGRAMME COMMITTEE
Aaron Quigley, (UCD,
Anthony LaMarca (Intel
Research,
Axel Kueper (
Bill Karakostas (
Christian Becker (IPDS,
Christos Panayiotou (
Jadwiga Indulska, (
Jeffrey Hightower (Intel
Research,
John Flannagan (
Paulo Carvalho
(Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal)
Rui José
(Universidade do Minho, Portugal)
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